Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (UCSF)

PRHE is hiring for an Administrative Assistant to join our stellar Operations team! This person will provide mission-critical executive level support to PRHE's Director Tracey Woodruff and may oversee complex scheduling management, fundraising data.

"Publishing papers in top-tier journals is crucial scholastic currency. But the process is deeply insular, often hinging on personal connections between journal editors and the researchers from whom they solicit and receive manuscripts."

An Op-ed by Bruce Lanphear , Christine Till, and Linda Birnbaum asks a crucial question around fluoride: "When do we know enough to revise long-held beliefs? " https://www.ehn.org/fluoride-and-childrens-health-264812028

In a marked departure from the original draft risk evaluation, EPA's revised PV 29 risk evaluation indicates some unreasonable risk to workers. Comments on the revised draft are due by November 30.

EPA must stop relying on thresholds for non-cancer outcomes and assume that risks of all health effects to industrial/environmental chemicals can occur at any level of exposure.

"Air pollution is linked with an increased risk of low birth weight and preterm birth...Low birth weight and preterm birth are leading risk factors for death in the first month of life, contributing to an estimated 1.8 million deaths worldwide." Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Brexit negotiations have stalled, despite critical issues for researchers being unresolved and a fast approaching January 1st deadline for finalization.

EPA claims that the restrictions, which comprise of increased buffer zones and cutoff dates for spraying, will sufficiently protect farmers and their crops. Environmental NGOs disagree.

California's Supreme Court declined to let Bayer appeal a decision around RoundUp, all but forcing the company to pay $20 million+ to a groundskeeper who alleged his cancer was caused by the herbicide

A study on India's Clean Electricity Transition found policy enforcement of air pollution regulations, even without divestment from energy sources like coal, brought the country closer to achieving its health and energy goals. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c01622

Our Postdocs compared risk of bias tools among systematic review methods. Their finding? Those using overall study quality ratings to exclude studies can lead to erroneous conclusions about the quality of evidence for toxic chemicals.

Documents show that the Administration is considering blocking federal health funds to Democratic-led cities like New York, Portland, DC, and Seattle due to their stance on police brutality.

Scientists have known for almost a decade the links between formaldehyde and cancer, but a 2016 FDA ban to regulate the carcinogen was abruptly stalled. Science, not politics, should determine how a harmful chemical is regulated.

E&E News highlights multiple employees at EPA's Air Office who have previously worked to undermine the very regulations they are charged with enforcing.

Our first webinar in the new series, Generation Chemical: How Environmental Exposures Affect Reproductive Health and Development is about to happen in ONE HOUR! This webinar features Drs. Shanna H. Swan, Germaine M. Buck Louis, Jessie Buckley, and Tracey Woodruff. Register and get more details at https://tinyurl.com/generationchemical Brought to you by Collaborative on Health and the Environment Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (UCSF) UCSF Environmental Research and Translation for Health Center Endocrine Society FIGO International Federation of Fertility Societies Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments